Alexis is a tiny town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 589 people and just one neighborhood, Alexis is the 466th largest community in North Carolina.
Alexis is a blue-collar town, with 44.34% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Alexis is a town of service providers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alexis who work in personal care services (20.36%), management occupations (15.38%), and office and administrative support (8.60%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Alexis has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Alexis has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alexis than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alexis may be for you.
Being a small town, Alexis does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Alexis ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.71% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Alexis in 2022 was $29,064, which is middle income relative to North Carolina, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,256 for a family of four. However, Alexis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alexis is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alexis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alexis residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Alexis include European, Irish, Welsh, English, and German.
The most common language spoken in Alexis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Japanese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 96.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Alexis are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Alexis, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.